AMD's Radeon RX 6800 could be a quiet powerhouse of a graphics card, as early benchmarks have been released showing that the GPU can be overclocked to 2.5 GHz.

The benchmark, courtesy of software developer CapFrameX, ran the Radeon RX 6800 through its own benchmark software and found that it could achieve a consistent overclock of 2,532 MHz.

When AMD introduced its Big Navi series of RDNA 2-based graphics cards, the RX 6800 was at the bottom of the list. This $549 graphics card seems to be aimed at delivering 4K gaming at solid frame rates and higher frame rates at 1440p resolution; AMD has been able to beat the older GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, which was $999 at launch in 2018 showed that it could.

However, with a clock speed above the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080's boost clock speed of 1.73 GHz, the Radeon RX 6800 could step on the heels of Nvidia's consumer high-end graphics cards. AMD has been working on a more powerful 649 dollar Radeon RX 6800 XT, which is positioned as an RTX 3080 killer. However, because of overclocking potential, the vanilla RX 6800 could edge out the RTX 3080. [This is because the Radeon RX 6000 card uses GDDR6 video memory, while the RTX 3080 and the very expensive GeForce RTX 3090 use faster GDDR6X VRAM. Therefore, Nvidia's cards have more memory bandwidth than Radeon's cards and may have an advantage in overall performance.

In any case, the potentially overclocked Radeon RX 6800 could be the AMD graphics card released on November 18.

One thing to note is that the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 is available now. This card starts at $499 and also targets gaming at 4K and 1440p, which may be more appealing to PC gamers on a limited budget.